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Recent Trends in Income, Racial,

and Ethnic School Readiness Gaps

 at Kindergarten Entry

Sean F. Reardon, Ximena A. Portilla (August 2016 ). Recent Trends in Income,

Racial, and Ethnic School Readiness Gaps at Kindergarten Entry,

American Educational Research Association (AERA) Open, DOI: 10.1177/2332858416657343,

This study found that low-income kindergarten students have reversed the trend

of growing academic achievement gaps between them and their

higher-income peers. Academic achievement gaps grew from 

the 1970s to the 1990s, but from 1998 to 2010 the gaps shrank 10-16%.....

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